Hey Mike, I really appreciate your straight forward reviews you do. Tell it like it is is a good practice. Thanks for your devotion to the brand and taking your time to do these videos.

Thank you for recording the sound in the cockpit. Great to know the noise level.

Thank you for taking the time to share the sound level changes!

Man my dream has always been have one corvette you have two goals!! got a great Chanel bro keep up the videos 💯

Sounds great & looks so sharp in White IMO, set's the car's lines off so well...!

Sounds awesome! I was surprised how great the new cats made it sound! 🇺🇸

Thank you for sharing this video 👍 good job

Said it once, and ill say it again, you inspire me as a car salesman to be better!

Taking right after stradman with that beginning he is definitely someone to look up to .

hi Mike. nice vid. liked b4 watching b/c I knew it was going to be good

Love the Soul CATS!

I luv ur boxers! Especially their ears !! Great dogs!

Congrats for stradmans C8 Corvette🎉🤩

Pulling fuse 41 or 42 (depending on the year) on your C7 definitely makes a difference in the sense that even in ESM Track mode, there are situations (throttle, speed, RPMs, etc) where the NPP valves will close. By pulling the fuse, the valves will always be open for that louder sound profile. The drawback is of course that you can never put it in Stealth mode if you need a quiet start unless you put the fuse back in. The middle ground for added control beyond the stock ESM settings is the Mild2Wild for the C7.

Chevy dude is literally the best C8 owner

@cindysue5474

4 жыл бұрын

Garner also.

@billlemon6887

4 жыл бұрын

MSRP, installed for the cats?

Our car number one brought his car and had a one off done by soul w John great guy. The Vin is under 350.. Maybe you saw it the did a video also cross drilled rotors and tips and his valve system is still functional

I like the pops on the shift.

Mike more than likely this 3 prong blade fuse is as follows: Prong left camera Prong center ground Prong right exhaust So try a piece of thin tape on prong left and see what result you get then try taping prong right and see or hear that result. Best of luck to you and keep up your fantastic informative videos! John & Josie

@danielkarifrancisco2987

3 жыл бұрын

I don't understand exactly what the point of pulling that fuse was? Was it to avoid a check engine light?

thanks for that content i purchased 2021 c8 a week ago, coming from a few exotic cars i noticed the exhaust was a bit lacking in its tone and sound. i mean the car sounds good but i expected more.

Mike you need to do the test in the same place in the driveway, doing the test with the car in the garage may make it sound louder. Even having the grass at a different hight could cause sound level to test off and make sure the sky is the same as cloudy or sunny, I have done plenty of dba testing and it all makes a difference. Thank you for showing what others don't.

@cppodcast3617

2 жыл бұрын

This is what I was going to say! He tested the 'sports cats' in his garage, so of course the noise level was going to be much higher than the 'stock cats' in the driveway.

Exhaust mods rating tool .... dog reaction level @14:02, lol.

I've told you this before but, that blue interior contrasted with the black is very striking and beautiful. You should get some of the plastic bits(like the cover you removed)covered in leather to match the rest of the interior pieces. It would definitely take the quality of that interior up 10 notches or so...😉👍

I like your Dog's reaction to the noise. Kind of like, what is this crazy person doing now?

Love the vett

love it

Decibels are logarithmic. 3Db gain is twice as loud as baseline 3 more is twice as loud as that, so four times as loud as baseline, add another 3 for a total of nine and it is 8 times louder. Amazing sound pressure increase for just cats.

Hey Mike love ur channel......when is the 2021 equinox hitting the car lots

Dog: I'm outta here. LOL I'm thinking of sport cats from Paragon for my C8. Sound is great from Soul as well. Thanks, Mike!

If I was ever able to have a car like that I'd be so content with it I wouldn't even look to do modes.

Thanks Mike for showing us were the fuse box is located on the C8

@662Quae

2 жыл бұрын

😂😂 pull the security fuses

So, I have a 2020 Convertible on order. I was wondering if you could do a speaker review? Really want to know the sound quality of the new Bose system.

FYI to those interested, a 10 db increase is roughly "doubling" how loud humans perceive a noise. So +10 db means roughly twice as loud to the ear. I'M PUMPED AND DEFINITELY PICKING UP SPORT CATS FOR MINE 😁

@brockphilips1189

4 жыл бұрын

Roger that, dB scale is logarithmic

Smiling for you thumbnail is a hole lot better than your previous thumbnail pictures

@ChevyDude

4 жыл бұрын

My click through rate sucked on this video. Stupid expressions returning. I get better views and clicks with the expressions.

The fuse on the C7 closes the nnp exhaust at higher speeds even if its set to be open

Outside the garage for the start up but after market start up is inside the garage

I wonder if we can unplug the wire from the exhaust valves (the 2 located on the pipe(s) feeding the outboard exhaust tips) and if the valves will stay open????

Question is do you notice a difference in hp and torque? Great video!

Shoot I just want to be able to find one to buy.

Chevy Dude are you talking deposits for the C8 2021 convertible?

10 dB is a lot higher volume than what people think. I would spend my money on other things than an exhaust like an Maguson Supercharger which will make a huge difference for the money

@Chevy Dude do u recommend soul performance sports cats or fabspeed sports cats? having a hard time deciding

I had sport cats on my C7Z, then went to bypass pipes. Massive difference. Downshifts on country roads, with trees closeby and the windows rolled down, it sounded like a gunshot. Like it would have this loud "kraKOW" effect echo off the trees. So I'm going with bypass pipes on my C8, instead of sport cats.

@geneforte9038

Жыл бұрын

What are bypass pipes?

@vhayne91777

Жыл бұрын

@@geneforte9038 Basically just straight-pipes, no cat, resonator, or muffler in the mid pipe area.

Hey Do I have to get performance exhaust in order to upgrade the exhaust later aftermarket?

The dog said this dude and this car again

I was standing in front of that car at Chevy dealership

The sound quality on the mic does no justice I have heard it in person and it is a lot louder than in the video with the sport exhaust

Thank you for the review of the cats. Maybe I missed it but are you still using the factory valves and muffler set up? Or was that part of an upgrade also?

@ChevyDude

3 жыл бұрын

At this time I only changed the cats. I now currently have a muffler delete system on the car from soul. You will definitely want to change the cats but the muffler delete is very loud. ( no drone on either setup)

I saw around 98 dB as a peak which is a significant level. I wonder if you were using the peak reading or C averaging mode on your sound level meter? Regarding the 3 prong fuse, I would assume that one pin is hot (+12 VDC mesured to chassis ground) and that it feeds through two seperate fuse elements to the other two pins, one being the mirror function and the other being the exhaust function. It seems to me that they would have to have a very strong motivation to create such a situation, as in they don't want this fuse pulled. This would normally be the dumbest thing ever to require this special fuse which no one on earth is going to have on a shelf. If you are really intent, then find the hot pin (I would guess the center one), and then fashion a wire jumper and put power to the remaining two pins, one at a time. When you identify the one to the mirror, the remaining one would be the one to remove. This is simple electrical troubleshooting so I assume that the person that got the check engine light has already done this and discovered that they built in an irritant to head this off. Another consideration is that there is more than just two functions associated with the fuse, which might explain the check engine light. I would not do this myself or recommend that you do it without hearing the story from the factory engineering people.

Mike I need a diesel truck to pull a 10,000 lbs boat to the launch & back 5 miles each way, pace, Florida, Got anything?!! I grew up in Louisville, Moore high school area.

Remember: there are no dumb questions. This question with regard to soul cats, why are they superior to Kooks Green Cats. I understand that there is a tremendous amount of technology involved in the "Green Cats." Can you help us out here? Thank you. AF

Calm letter 18

got any c8's for sale?

hi Mike was just wondering if the sport cats void the warranty

@danielkarifrancisco2987

3 жыл бұрын

I am wondering the same thing

Smart elk 98

Fast boy 42

What is the cost

Black beast 80

How about a review on the sound system. no one ever do that and this is suppose to be the best system ever in a vet.

What is the ballpark cost of an install of Soul Performance Sport Cats, labor only?

@ChevyDude

3 жыл бұрын

Just a few hundred

@stevencoltre2275

3 жыл бұрын

@@ChevyDude ok great, one more questions. so its worth the $3k to put the Soul performance sport cats on my Z51?

Soul

I'm from commiefornia, don't judge please, and I fully agree with your "probably have CA to blame" comment.

Do you have the factory performance exhaust?

@ChevyDude

2 жыл бұрын

Yes I did in this video.

Crazy warrior 18

I feel really stupid asking this question but what are sport cats

@ChevyDude

4 жыл бұрын

No that’s a great question. I show them here and discuss them. The best exhaust on 2020 Corvette. Massive HP gains!

@crimsonking8746

4 жыл бұрын

Just check out his previous video...😉😁

hey

I want to hear from 2020 Vette owners that leave car all stock. Want to see issues they have with brand new platform. I’d prefer to do mods after Warranty period. Do you sell Vettes to owners that don’t mod cars or feel the need to track a brand new car?🤔

@cppodcast3617

2 жыл бұрын

In track mode I don't see any need to modify the sound of the car for 5k+ and void the factory warranty on the engine. My pride is not that great. After the warranty, if I still own my C8, I will modify it more and more for track performance. Sound will be a byproduct of those mods, but I won't change modify my C8 just for sound only. FYI - I have the performance exhaust. My buddy has the regular exhaust and I think he regrets not getting the performance exhaust. It's so quiet. I could see that mod being made BECAUSE it's abnormally quiet to the point of not matching the car! Makes no sense why Chevy made its stock exhaust so quiet. Misjudged the customer?

Ooooo

@GMH730YT

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks for ❤️ my comment Chevy Dude!

@ChevyDude

4 жыл бұрын

Welcome

5.00 what are those tire marks? Lmafo

Athletic engineer 14

Kind friend 09

California: 95 dbA is the legal limit for vehicle exhaust noise in California. Police officers can “exercise their judgment” in determining if your exhaust noise is over the legal limit. Most factory-installed exhaust systems even on powerful sports cars don't exceed 75 decibels.

@cppodcast3617

2 жыл бұрын

Kalifornia

1st commented, 1st liked, and 1st viewed

Count how many commercials, ads, subscribe shills, and buy my shit/merch comes up in this 1 video.

That dodge ugly but it was the best flex pull off ever...

Cruel brother 74

Don't pull the fuse on any model even the 1lt. It will disables your remote start and throws a check engine light. You can't even tell a difference anyways this a C7 hack don't do it on the C8.

Dirty designer 95

In when the video had no views and only 21 seconds 🤘

@BobThe9534

4 жыл бұрын

I went in the vid when there was no views 2

#blamecomiefornia

Intelligente mother 41

I hate cats

@daniel27560

4 жыл бұрын

@Steve Silvas those are fine but I don't have any cats